Shantanu Thakur assesses development works at Samba
SAMBA: Union Minister of State (MoS) for Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Shantanu Thakur on Saturday visited border district Samba to assess the pace of development works across various sectors.
The minister is on his visit to the district as part of the Union Government’s Public Outreach Programme in J&K.
While interacting with the public representatives, the minister said that the government is committed to develop J&K on all fronts and every sector will be given due importance for the welfare of the people.
He said the government is ensuring that the benefits of all the centrally sponsored schemes must reach the last man in the last queue in J&K UT.
He said the development across all the sectors has been accelerated by the development of highways, power projects, sports infrastructure etc.
The minister also inspected the departmental stalls of different line departments including Social Welfare, ICDS, Horticulture, AYUSH, Agriculture, Handicrafts Handloom and Industries.
The minister emphasized upon the officers that the awareness programs must be organized so that the people get to know about various centrally sponsored schemes.
He also e- inaugurated various development works including construction of deep drain at Municipal Committee Bari Brahmana under drainage sector having project cost of 271.00 lacs, Construction of four link Roads, two RCC Bridge Spans, one vented causeway total amounting to 2268.5 lacs.
Thakur also distributed sanction letters among beneficiaries of Mumkin Scheme, Ladli Beti Scheme, PMEGP scheme, Handicrafts, Handloom, Landpass Books under Digital India Initiative and 03 E-Rickshaws were also distributed among the beneficiaries.
Later, the minister inspected the Dry Port Samba informed that the Inland Container Depot (Dry Port) being set up by Associated Container Terminal Ltd (ACTL) for felicitation of domestic and international trade will pace up the Industrial growth in J&K and will generate numerous job opportunities for the youth.
He also visited Sub-division Ghagwal wherein District Development Council members, Block Development Council members, Sarpanchs projected demands and development aspirations.
